Felt-cushion size-reducer for hats.



H. & P. COHEN.

FELT CUSHION SIZE REDUCER FOR HATS.

APPLICATION HLED AUG. 3. 1915.

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HENRY COHEN AND PHILIP COHEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FELT-CUSHION SIZE-REDUCER FOR HATS.

Application filed August 3, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY Corrnn and PHILIP COHEN, citizens of the Jnited States, residing at 71 Vest One Hundred and Fifteenth street, New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Felt-Cushion Size- Reducer for Hats, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in size reducers for hats.

It consists in the novel features hereinafter more fully described.

The objects of our improvements are: First to produce a size reducer for hats, which is readily conformable to the shape of the head of a person wearing the hat. Second, to have the said size reducer for hats fairly resilient so as to keep its shape. Third, to have said size reducer for hats simple, durable and inexpensive. We attain these objects by the article illustrated in accompanying drawings or by any equivalent or obvious modification of the same.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side view of one form of our size reducers; Fig. 2 is a side view of another form of the same; Fig. 3 is a plan of our size reducer shown as coiled up into a circle, ready to be inserted into a hat; Fig. 1 is an end view of our size reducer when the same is uncoiled or flat.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

11 and 13 are two strips of felt and 12 is a strip of paper of the proper degree of thickness and stiffness inclosed between said strips of felt.

In the modification shown in Fig. l the strips 11 and 13 are secured to strips 12 by Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing" the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1916.

Serial No. 43,418.

means of glue or gum. In the modification shown in Fig. 2, the three strips are fastened by means of the lines of stitches 14c and 15, as shown.

In our size reducer for hats the double strip of felt affords the softness and comfort of the cushion to the wearer of the hat; and the strip of paper of suitable degree of elasticity provides the reinforcement for keeping the article in shape, which reinforcement is also sufficiently pliable to render our size-reducer for hats conformable to the head of a person.

In the drawings the strips 11 and 13 are shown as separate; but they may also be made in one piece folded together either longitudinally or transversely, with the strip of paper inclosed between the two plies thereof. The method of fastening the strips 11, 12 and 13 may also be different from the method above described. Each of the strips 11, 12, and 13 may also be composed of two or more thinner strips fastened together. We do not, therefore, restrict ourselves to the forms of our size reducer for hats as disclosed by the drawings.

What we claim as our invention, and de sire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a reducer for hats a strip or strips of paper of suitable thickness and elasticity inclosed between two or more plies of felt of suitable thickness.

2. In a size reducer for hats two or more plies of felt of suitable thickness, combined with a resilient reinforcement of suitable material inclosed thercbetween.

HENRY COHEN. PHILIP COHEN.

Commissioner 01' Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

